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AGS Support => Advanced Technical Forum => Topic started by: pcj on Thu 06/11/2003 23:09:48

Title: Need help figuring out video file compression / combination
Post by: pcj on Thu 06/11/2003 23:09:48
I'm wanting to combine all my video cutscenes into one simple file (like the VOX files for speech and music).  But I haven't found a way to do this in a format that AGS can read.

I would appreciate any ideas on how to do this.

Oh, and I'm using the PlayVideo function, not FLCs.

Thanks.
Title: Re:Need help figuring out video file compression / combination
Post by: Gilbert on Fri 07/11/2003 02:14:40
Because you cant. For Movie Video AVI files, they MUST be separate files in the game's directory, at least for now.
Title: Re:Need help figuring out video file compression / combination
Post by: pcj on Fri 07/11/2003 12:29:12
Dang.

OK.   Thanks.
Title: Re:Need help figuring out video file compression / combination
Post by: Pumaman on Fri 07/11/2003 16:37:32
Yeah, Media Player doesn't have any method for reading videos out of a larger data file; the only solution would be for me to manually write the decompressor part of the code, which is more work than I can justify spending on this feature I'm afraid.
Title: Re:Need help figuring out video file compression / combination
Post by: Pau on Sun 09/11/2003 11:19:54
If your intention is to hide the videos, you can set the split resource files option, and name your videos as the next resource numbers (...,GAME.007, GAME.008,...), I've tested that with .mpg videos and it works, but I supose .avi will work too.

With this trick the player wont be tempted to see the videos and spoil the game.

Pau
Title: Re:Need help figuring out video file compression / combination
Post by: pcj on Sun 09/11/2003 15:17:32
Yeah, I already knew about that.  I'd just like to get them into all one file, but that'll work too, for now.

Thanks anyway.